December 5, 2014

Obituaries

Please submit in writing to our office by 10 a.m. Thursday before the week of publication; be sure to state date of death. Obituaries of archdiocesan priests serving our archdiocese are listed elsewhere in The Criterion. Order priests and religious sisters and brothers are included here, unless they are natives of the archdiocese or have other connections to it; those are separate obituaries on this page.

Franciscan Sister Laurencia Listerman died on Nov. 20, 2014, at the motherhouse of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis in Oldenburg. She was 101.

The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Nov. 25 at the Motherhouse Chapel in Oldenburg. Burial followed at the sisters’ cemetery.

Helen Ann Listerman was born on April 25, 1913, in St. Bernard, Ohio.

She entered the Sisters of St. Francis on Sept. 7, 1931, and professed final vows on July 2, 1937.

During 83 years as a Sister of St. Francis, Sister Laurencia ministered as an educator for 50 years in Catholic schools in Indiana, Missouri and Ohio. In the archdiocese, she served at St. Mary School in North Vernon, Oldenburg Academy of the Immaculate Conception in Oldenburg, the former St. Mary Academy and Father Thomas Scecina Memorial High School, both in Indianapolis.

Beginning in 1984, she returned to the motherhouse and ministered to the retired sisters there. She dedicated herself to prayer beginning in 1996.

Sister Laurencia is survived by several nieces and nephews.

Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters of St. Francis, Oldenburg, IN 47036-0100. †